June 2004 Posts

My family is in another location right now. They’re in a hotel, Comfort Inn. I was talking to my middle brother a little while ago and he said something funny. It is funny because it didn’t sound like he planned to say it, just said it (but he probably came up with it and then said it).

I’ve always liked Ken Griffey, Jr. I met him when, you could say, he was at the height of his popularity and he seemed like a nice enough guy.

He took his place among baseball royalty by hitting home run number 500 earlier today. He’s a sure thing hall of famer and in his prime, there aren’t many guys that I’d rather have in center field in the history of the game.

Well, not completely. We’ve had it for several years. It has many features. Multiple mailboxes, blah blah blah. It’s a good phone, it’s been durable. It has a speaker and it has a mic. You record the answering machine message on the mic.

But, it is odd – it doesn’t have speaker phone. You can press the “Monitor” button and hear the person on the other end through the speaker, but you can’t talk to them. It makes no sense. It has a speaker, it as a mic – who didn’t put them together? Strange.

Steinbrenner said he responded with an obscenity, whereupon one of the men hit him on the side of the head with a beer bottle he was holding. Steinbrenner, 51 years old at the time, said that in rapid succession he threw three punches – two rights and a left. Down went the first miscreant; down went the second.

Muhammad Ali? He might have stung like a bee, but Steinbrenner said he swung a sledgehammer.

“I clocked them,” Steinbrenner told reporters just before midnight in a news conference he called in his hotel suite. “There are two guys in this town looking for their teeth…